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  1. Fees drown out 'Cinders'

    Postgraduates are the "Cinderellas" of the UK university sector - ignored by the Government in its Higher Education Act and overlooked when it comes to career development, a conference heard this...

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  2. Clone go-ahead

    Scientists at Newcastle University made history this week as they were granted the first UK licence to clone human cells, writes Alan Thomson. The Newcastle Human Embryonic Stem Cell Group can now...

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  3. Today's news

    Fees deter 70,000 students Nearly 70,000 school-leavers will not go to university as a result of the Government's new tuition fees, according to research released today. Researchers questioned 750...

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  4. Starter for 10 that could finish off your chances

    Mandy Garner took a crack team of students and asked them to rise to the challenge of an admissions exam being roadtested at Cambridge University. Your starter for ten. A solid cube has 12 edges. If...

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  5. Travel tales of the cultural shepherd

    Adrian Mourby meets jack of all trades and tour leader Roderick Swanston as part of our intellectual tourism series. "I am a jack of all trades," says Roderick Swanston. "And Master of Arts. My job...

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  6. Gloves off for 'thinking man's Michael Moore'

    The Bush Administration is a joke, guilty of 'crony capitalism' and 'world-class mendacity', but Paul Krugman is not laughing, says Stephen Phillips. Paul Krugman has a day off from his biweekly...

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  7. Can those who lit the flame for democracy carry it?

    As the Olympics kick off, Huw Richards looks at the birthplace of the modern state in the last of our series. The Greeks certainly had a word for it - indeed the word for it - since "democracy", like...

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  8. Undercover Laurie: Cap and gown, check. Wallet, check

    In the first of a series in which Laurie Taylor goes undercover at university events, he gatecrashes a degree ceremony and leaves with empty pockets. "Is this the queue for the 12.15?" Reading...

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